Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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If I had a nickel for every time Lwaxana Troi got paired up with an actor well-known for (among many other things) prominent Disney roles, I'd have two nickels. That doesn't seem like much, but it's weird that it happened twice (David Ogden Stiers in the old people euthanasia episode, and now Tony Jay in this Alexander is an obnoxious little shit episode.)

In this episode, Lwaxana also takes Alexander to some kind of swinger holodeck program where she mudbathes with him along with appear to be several naked men. The fuck?

Also, later on she shows up to her wedding (with Tony Jay) which she has no longer has any intention of going through with looking like...
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Poor Alexander is going to either end up scarred for life, or with a granny fetish.


Also Famke Janssen is in the next episode playing... They just called her a mutant. Quick, somebody call Professor X.
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Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo said:
The alternative is doing it like Star Wars where half the characters are speaking in made up gibberish language with subtitles and I hate that so fucking much.
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Or how everyone just understands the aforementioned gibberish language.
Curzon Dax-sama said:
What if the Ferengi don't have a word for that, because the concept behind the word is unknown or inconceivable for them?
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Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo said:
I mean they definitely have "hostile takeover" in their lexicon I would assume and that's not too far from a coup d'etat.
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To be fair, even saying the word "union" is a crime for Frengi.
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Yeah, but then he'd have to kiss a dude, so is that really a good idea?
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Maybe Frakes into that kind of thing?
 
UnKillFill said:
Also Famke Janssen is in the next episode playing... They just called her a mutant. Quick, somebody call Professor X.
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Famke was atrociously hot in that episode, just a drop dead 10/10. Love that it all starts by Ferrengi being typical space jews and not keeping their hands to themselves.
 
Brain Problems said:
Famke was atrociously hot in that episode, just a drop dead 10/10. Love that it all starts by Ferrengi being typical space jews and not keeping their hands to themselves.
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The Ferengi on TNG (and later VOY) have zero value, they're on the same level as Pakleds.

Maybe it would’ve been more fun if they leaned into the Daimons snorting space coke in sex casinos (Wolf of Wall Street with Ferengi. They can literally hear market trends!) but this is Star Trek so WE HAVE TO TAKE EVERYTHING DEADLY SERIOUSLY.

The only redeeming feature is the outfits, at least those are an improvement from the caveman-furs they start with.
 
Captain Syrup said:
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The Ferengi on TNG (and later VOY) have zero value, they're on the same level as Pakleds.

Maybe it would’ve been more fun if they leaned into the Daimons snorting space coke in sex casinos (Wolf of Wall Street with Ferengi. They can literally hear market trends!) but this is Star Trek so WE HAVE TO TAKE EVERYTHING DEADLY SERIOUSLY.

The only redeeming feature is the outfits, at least those are an improvement from the caveman-furs they start with.
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The whips were cool
 
Captain Syrup said:
The Ferengi on TNG (and later VOY) have zero value, they're on the same level as Pakleds.
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Ferengi in TNG did not exist for the audience. They existed for the fulfillment of the fetishes of Gene Roddenberry. Gene, his friends call him Gene, designed the Ferengi to be a pure representation of over competitive male ego. Yankee Traders, Venture Capitalists, their women kept naked at all times and forbidden from wearing clothes, their sole pursuit being what gets them ahead next, and ,most importantly of all for Gene, the males are ,canonically,hung like horses and feature massive codpieces.

The Ferengi presented for Gene, and the more enlightened viewer, the perfect vessel with which to self insert your unwieldy ambitions and have them brought into an ugly physical form. The intercombative nature of Ferengi society serving as a foil to The Federation whose goals and methods are about cooperation provided and ideal adversary. The audience however were not compelled by ball headed manlets and Ferengi society suffered until the release of DS9 as a result.

The writers and executives behind Star Trek failed Gene and his vision when they chose to castrate their Ferengi and their lewd metaphor.
 
ShapelyMutton said:
Ferengi in TNG did not exist for the audience. They existed for the fulfillment of the fetishes of Gene Roddenberry. Gene, his friends call him Gene, designed the Ferengi to be a pure representation of over competitive male ego. Yankee Traders, Venture Capitalists, their women kept naked at all times and forbidden from wearing clothes, their sole pursuit being what gets them ahead next, and ,most importantly of all for Gene, the males are ,canonically,hung like horses and feature massive codpieces.

The Ferengi presented for Gene, and the more enlightened viewer, the perfect vessel with which to self insert your unwieldy ambitions and have them brought into an ugly physical form. The intercombative nature of Ferengi society serving as a foil to The Federation whose goals and methods are about cooperation provided and ideal adversary. The audience however were not compelled by ball headed manlets and Ferengi society suffered until the release of DS9 as a result.

The writers and executives behind Star Trek failed Gene and his vision when they chose to castrate their Ferengi and their lewd metaphor.
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Man, even in the 80s, people were villifying capitalism.
 
Ultraman Orb Dark said:
Man, even in the 80s, people were villifying capitalism.
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1’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume you’re 17 years old, never seen a Verhoeven flick in your life, or you’re just operating at like, 65 IQ, and not assume you’re deliberately running the "Uhhh wOkE hOLLywOOd bAd” script. But yes, genius, in the ‘80s, people were allowed to make movies that mocked capitalism. It was called satire.

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Captain Syrup said:
1’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume you’re 17 years old, never seen a Verhoeven flick in your life, or you’re just operating at like, 65 IQ, and not assume you’re deliberately running the "Uhhh wOkE hOLLywOOd bAd” script. But yes, genius, in the ‘80s, people were allowed to make movies that mocked capitalism. It was called satire.

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It was a joke, sorry.
 
Flexo said:
Yeah. And later we see the captain writing in his journal so it's obviously a functional language.
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Need to give the TNG writers credit on the language as they did their homework first before and during their writing the script for the episode. As the language in the episode was based on in real life language(s). As found out ten-twenty plus years ago by a rando blogger who for had look into this.
 
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I'm watching the episode where Howling Mad Murdock is (rightfully) terrified about the transporters. They are currently talking about keeping him suspended mid-transport, and they say that if he's suspended for too long things could go really bad... Man, it sure would suck being stuck in a transport pattern buffer for a long period of time... They really should make an episode where they do that.
 
UnKillFill said:
I'm watching the episode where Howling Mad Murdock is (rightfully) terrified about the transporters. They are currently talking about keeping him suspended mid-transport, and they say that if he's suspended for too long things could go really bad... Man, it sure would suck being stuck in a transport pattern buffer for a long period of time... They really should make an episode where they do that.
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Certainly sucked for Scotty's pal Franklin, we never even got to see his face.
 
And finally, the episode where Captain Picard becomes everything he hates most in the galaxy.
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It was actually a much better episode than I remembered despite the beyond stupid premise.
 
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